Get set up.
Then get to work.

01

Download

Bunzed is free. Grab the latest release for your platform, open a folder with ⌘ O, and you're ready to go.

• macOS: unzip, move Bunzed.app to Applications and open it. The first time, macOS may say it can't verify the developer: open System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway.
• Linux: extract the tarball and run ./install.sh to add Bunzed to your app launcher.
• Windows: extract the ZIP and double-click install.cmd to install for your user, or run bunzed.exe directly. The build isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may warn about an unknown publisher.

Older versions are on the releases page.

02

Language servers

Language servers run as separate processes and need to be installed on your machine. Bunzed finds them on your PATH and in common tool installation directories.

Lua and Luau syntax highlighting works without a language server.

03

Settings

Open settings with ⌘ ,. Changes apply right away and are saved for next time, in:

macOS

~/Library/Application Support/bunzed-ide

Linux

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bunzed-ide (usually ~/.config/bunzed-ide)

Windows

%APPDATA%\bunzed-ide

Under Appearance, pick the transparent theme, set its opacity and turn on blur behind the window. Blur works on macOS and KDE Plasma; elsewhere it's plain transparency.

04

Shortcuts

Shown for macOS. On Linux and Windows, use Ctrl where macOS uses ⌘. In the terminal, copy and paste are Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V, and Ctrl+W, Ctrl+L, Ctrl+N, Ctrl+O and Ctrl+Q go to the shell.